[UPDATE] Cultures of Commemoration: Contemporary Presentations of the Past, 11-12 July 2014

full name / name of organization:

University of Portsmouth, UK

contact email:

christine.berberich@port.ac.uk

Cultures of Commemoration

International Conference hosted by
the Centre for Studies in Literature
University of Portsmouth, UK

11-12 July 2014

Call For Papers

Taking as a starting point the range of events which will mark the commemoration of WWI in 2014, this conference considers the place occupied by commemorative practices in contemporary literature and culture. We welcome contributions which examine how different ‘pasts’ and key historical moments – including, but not exclusively, the First World War – are memorialised, fictionalised, and at times commercialised, in the present.
Possible areas of interest include:
• Remembering/consuming the past in contemporary literature and culture
• The presentation of past military conflicts in contemporary literature and culture
• Memory, memorialisation, and the function of loss in contemporary literature and culture
• Neo-historical returns to the past in contemporary literature and culture
• ‘Dark tourism’ and the fascination with past traumas in contemporary literature and culture
• Exhausting the past: commemoration fatigue and forgetting in contemporary literature and culture

Please send an abstract (300 words max) for a 20mn paper and a brief biographical note to Dr Christine Berberich (Christine.Berberich@port.ac.uk) and Dr Elodie Rousselot (Elodie.Rousselot@port.ac.uk) by 7 March 2014. Contributions from the fields of literary studies, history, cultural studies, film and visual arts very welcome.

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